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Hi

Most will know I have an '04 3d and last year after a 4 hour drive I got an engine oil level warning when I turned the car off. I've had nothing since then but about 3 days ago it came and went again.

I had the oil changed at the dealership about 3 months ago with service. Today I went to start it and I got the message again on the display between the speedo and rev counter and then it changed to oil pressure warning. I turned the car off and started again with no warning and have done another trip since then problem free.

My question is, is it a gremlin in your opinion or should I high tail it to my local Indy?

Ive checked the dipstick and levels are fine. Just curious as to what others might investigate?

Penny

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Could be an oil pressure sensor ??

Sounds cheaper than catastrophic failure


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Not sure how helpful this will be, but I've had the 'check engine oil level' twice now, usually just as I stop after very long journeys, and my oil is pretty much on maximum.

It's wrong, so I ignore it

I'm inclined to share your optimism as it's happened to me and feedback helpful


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A BMW technician told me that when you start the car up and it goes through it's start up tests, every now and again they actually clash and show as a fault, hence you turn it off and try again and it shows no fault, the dealer had my car back in just after I got it a couple of years ago and re-arranged the start up self tests which cured the problem.

I had exactly the same this morning too. Hmmm, I thought all my electrical gremlins had been removed....lol.

Could just be the self test at start up or just a sensor issue.

Must be a fairly common thing. Had exactly the same after a long (5hr) trip a few weeks back. Nowt to worry about I believe.

Had the same on mine when it was new and it turned out to be faulty sensors which were duly replaced and it's been fine since then. The sensors for oil level and pressure were certainly a 'known' issue in 2005 at least.

One thing the BMW Rescue guy told me about starting these cars was to turn the key to Pos2, then put my seatbelt on, and by the time I had done that the car should have completed all its self-testing and could then be started with less chance of the start interrupting the tests and throwng a false message. I have followed that advice ever since and it is extremely rare to get a dpurious warning if any sort. May be he was right. It seems to work for mine anyway as before that I regularly used to see any of about 6 odd messages that were always false. I do the same with the X6 too and to date it's never thrown a bad code.

Thanks everybody that's comforting. I've had no issues since


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[quote=""X5Sport""]Had the same on mine when it was new and it turned out to be faulty sensors which were duly replaced and it's been fine since then. The sensors for oil level and pressure were certainly a 'known' issue in 2005 at least.

One thing the BMW Rescue guy told me about starting these cars was to turn the key to Pos2, then put my seatbelt on, and by the time I had done that the car should have completed all its self-testing and could then be started with less chance of the start interrupting the tests and throwng a false message. I have followed that advice ever since and it is extremely rare to get a dpurious warning if any sort. May be he was right. It seems to work for mine anyway as before that I regularly used to see any of about 6 odd messages that were always false. I do the same with the X6 too and to date it's never thrown a bad code.[/quote]

I've been advised the same by BMW Emergency......it can't hurt, so I do it all the time now as well. Today's brake light warning came on while driving so I can't blame the boot up procedure

Hope its just a sensor Penny, it doesn't sound serious if the car is not losing oil and performance is normal.

I had the same problem with the check error message : STOP ENGINE : OIL LEVEL PRESSURE. When I switch off the engine , I get another error message : CHECK OIL LEVEL. Both error messages happened whenever my engine was under normal hot temperature especially in a stop and go traffic situation.

I went to my indie shop and they were able to diagnose it as a oil sensor problem. I replaced the part and everything is running perfectly in my X5. HTH....

I'm still error free but will look into this should it happen again


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Had 2 check error messages namely:

1) STOP ENGINE : OIL LEVEL PRESSURE

2) CHECK OIL LEVEL


Both error emssages were resolved by changing the oil sensor...HTH.....

[quote=""blueagle""]Both error emssages were resolved by changing the oil sensor...HTH.....[/quote]

Any chance you can advise on where this part is (I will look at realOEM but need to know whereabouts it is). Plus was it a difficult job or easy DIY? Lastly, was the part dear?